Paragon on Flickr has uploaded an entertaining slideshow of misspelled Tea Party sinage (here). As somebody who once had to ^ in a missing "m" in my school project timeline that would otherwise have been titled "Iportant Events in the History of Communism," I understand that mistakes happen when you're making a poster. I see how you could write "Obama: Commander in Theif," or be against "Amensty" for immigrants.
On the other hand, I have somewhat less sympathy for noting on your car's rear window that "This is America and our only Lananguage is English." Also, I don't think it's overly elitist to suggest that somebody who spells "socialist" "scholiast" probably does not have an overly strong grasp of the underlying political theory.
I realize that snarking at these guys is not terribly helpful, and that it just feeds into their perception that educated coastal elites are looking down on them, and are consequently going to steal their guns and haul them in front of a death panel of illegal Mexicans and welfare recipients who will force them into gay marriages. However... scholiast? Really?
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